Former President Donald Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury. Here’s a roundup of PolitiFact’s recent fact-checks, stories and explainers addressing details about the case and related misinformation.
on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote that the Federal Election Commission dropped an inquiry into complaints against Cohen, Trump and Trump’s campaign for possible campaign finance violations because they"found no evidence of problems." Trump added that"the statute of limitations also stops them cold from going forward.
The posts decried a double standard and claimed Clinton got off lightly after he paid $850,000 to Paula Jones following her accusations of sexual impropriety in the early 1990s. Jones was an Arkansas state employee when Clinton was Arkansas’ governor. But legal experts said Trump’s payment to Daniels and Clinton’s settlement with Jones are markedly different. Clinton personally paid Jones to settle a public lawsuit after an election. Trump used his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to secretly pay Daniels to stay quiet before the 2016 presidential election. In August 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations and other crimes tied to his role in arranging the payments to Daniels and another woman.
Soros did donate to the PAC in May 2021, just before it publicly backed Bragg, but that money wasn’t earmarked for Bragg. Color of Change was supporting other progressive district attorney candidates that year in different cities, and had done so in previous election cycles as well.
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